Full Name: Esmail Zare Behtash
Academic Rank: Professor
Affiliation: Chabahar Maritime University
Address: Department of English
School of Foreign Languages
Chabahar Maritime University
Iran
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Background
Prof. Esmail Zare Behtash faculty member and the convener of MA students in Chabahar Maritime University, Iran. At the moment he is a visiting scholar at Oxford University in Oriental Institute. His publications cover two main areas: Victorian Literature and lexicography, writing bilingual dictionaries. Professor Behtash has presented a paper on the “Literature Review of FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát” at the University of Sydney (1992) and another paper on “FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát: A Victorian Invention” in the Nishabour International Seminar on Omar Khayyam (1999). He has also published articles in Persian on “Faith and Doubt in Victorian Poetry” (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran) and “FitzGerald and Persian Literature” (Orientalia Suecana, Uppsala, Sweden). In July 2009 he presented a paper on the “reception of the Rubáiyát by the Victorians” at Cambridge University.
Selected Publications
1- Banaruee, H., Khoshsima, H., Zare-Behtash, E., Yarahmadzehi, N., & Zhang, L. J. (2019). Types of metaphors and mechanisms of comprehension. Cogent Education, 6(1), 1617824.
2- Banaruee, H., Khoshsima, H., Zare-Behtash, E., & Yarahmadzehi, N. (2019). Reasons behind Using Metaphor: A Cognitive Perspective on Metaphoric Language. NeuroQuantology, 17(3).
3- Ebrahimi, M. R., Khoshsima, H., Zare-Behtash, E., & Heydarnejad, T. (2018). Emotional Intelligence Enhancement Impacts on Developing Speaking Skill among EFL Learners: An Empirical Study. International Journal of Instruction, 11(4), 625-640.
4- Ebrahimi, M. R., Khoshsima, H., & Zare-Behtash, E. (2018). The Impacts of Enhancing Emotional Intelligence on the Development of Reading Skill. International Journal of Instruction, 11(3), 573-586.
5- Ebrahimi, M. R., Khoshsima, H., & Zare-Behtash, E. (2018). The Impacts of Emotional Intelligence Enhancement on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Writing Skill. International Journal of Instruction, 11(1), 437-452.
6- Zare-Behtash, E., Saed, A., & Sajjadi, F. (2016). The effect of storytelling technique on speaking ability of female Iranian intermediate EFL learners. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 5(1), 209-214.
7- Behtash, E. Z., & Behtash, P. Z. (2019). War and English Poetry: From old English to modernism. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2(4), 290-333.
8- Behtash, E. Z. (2019). A Comparative Study of Women’s Presence in the Poetry of Jalál al-Din Rûmi and Robert Browning. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2(3), 290-297.
9- Banaruee, H., Khoshsima, H., Zare-Behtash, E., & Yarahmadzehi, N. (2019). Reasons behind Using Metaphor: A Cognitive Perspective on Metaphoric Language. NeuroQuantology, 17(3).
10- Zare-Behtash, E., Saed, A., & Zare-behtash, P. (2018). The Effect of Role-playing Tasks on Improving Speaking Ability of Iranian Pre-intermediate ESP Learners. Iranian Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 6(2), 23-32.
11- Zare-Behatsh, E., & Rezaee, A. The Impact of Spelling Strategies Instruction on the Iranian EFL Intermediate Learners’ Writing Performance. 1 The Italian Dubbing and Subtitling of Monster, Inc-An Analysis, 177.
12- Rezaee, A., Khoshsima, H., Zare-Bahtash, E., & Sarani, A. (2018). A Mixed Method Study of the Relationship between EFL Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Job Performance in Iran. International Journal of Instruction, 11(4), 577-592.